Hi all -
I am very happy to get going, with lots of stuff coming in over the next several days.
My plan is to open ferment with rousing - preferably, a pump-based rousing, as in Yorkshire; then transfer under as little O2 as possible, to a keg, for dry hopping, conditioning, and fining; to either a direct transfer to cask or bottle (will require mastery of yeast and sugar counts, obviously, with equipment I don't yet have), or to a mixing vessel for priming, possible yeast (and possibly different strain, for bottle conditioning); then bottle and/or cask.
So, I have two possible solutions for that open primary.
One, just use my Spike MLT. It isn't based on T/Cs, but it's an ideal 1:1 really, in aspect ratio. Has the built in thermo and ball valve. Means cleaning and sanitizing it while the wort is boiling in the BK.
Two, something like this. I beg the member's pardon, because I can't find where I got this. But I am wondering if anyone has an idea what something like this should cost on a 304, sanitary-welded basis; just an estimate of a custom job. Presume 12-15 gallon batches, so 20 gallons total in vessel volume:
(Finally, to cannibalize my other thread on Yorkshire Squares at home, pumps. Stuck on what type would suit recircing wort/beer as here, in the manner of Black Sheep et al. I don't think a centrifugal like a Chugger would suit. One member interestingly suggested a peristaltic. This weekend, away up North on a family matter, I visited a brewer I know, who just started a Belgian-style brewery. He actually uses submersible pumps for these purposes.
Submersible? Sanitizing? Forgot to ask...)
I am very happy to get going, with lots of stuff coming in over the next several days.
My plan is to open ferment with rousing - preferably, a pump-based rousing, as in Yorkshire; then transfer under as little O2 as possible, to a keg, for dry hopping, conditioning, and fining; to either a direct transfer to cask or bottle (will require mastery of yeast and sugar counts, obviously, with equipment I don't yet have), or to a mixing vessel for priming, possible yeast (and possibly different strain, for bottle conditioning); then bottle and/or cask.
So, I have two possible solutions for that open primary.
One, just use my Spike MLT. It isn't based on T/Cs, but it's an ideal 1:1 really, in aspect ratio. Has the built in thermo and ball valve. Means cleaning and sanitizing it while the wort is boiling in the BK.
Two, something like this. I beg the member's pardon, because I can't find where I got this. But I am wondering if anyone has an idea what something like this should cost on a 304, sanitary-welded basis; just an estimate of a custom job. Presume 12-15 gallon batches, so 20 gallons total in vessel volume:
(Finally, to cannibalize my other thread on Yorkshire Squares at home, pumps. Stuck on what type would suit recircing wort/beer as here, in the manner of Black Sheep et al. I don't think a centrifugal like a Chugger would suit. One member interestingly suggested a peristaltic. This weekend, away up North on a family matter, I visited a brewer I know, who just started a Belgian-style brewery. He actually uses submersible pumps for these purposes.
Submersible? Sanitizing? Forgot to ask...)
